Joe Block appeared as a member of the cast and a contestant during the second season of the CW reality television series Beauty and the Geek. He is a speed chess champion and was paired up together with Brittany Knott, though the two of them were eliminated from the competition during its eighth week. Block is a grad student who presently resides in Chicago, Illinois, as well as a member of the rock band Gnome Attic.




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